Longshore Act Question Number 1- Do I Need Longshore Act Insurance?
If you go to the U.S. Department of Labor’s website (dol.gov), find your way under Agencies to Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs and then to the Division of Longshore and Harbor Workers’...
View ArticleLongshore Act Question Number 2 – Where Can I Buy Longshore Act Insurance?
This is an important question, because there are serious consequences in the law if the maritime employer fails to meet the insurance requirement in section 932 of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’...
View ArticleOil Spill Dilemmas
Insurance carriers and brokers are puzzling through the coverage dilemmas presented by the Deepwater Horizon cleanup efforts. Are the shore side cleanup workers covered by state workers’ compensation...
View ArticleISSUE: Coverage – Status
Review Section 902(3) of the Longshore Act is the “STATUS” coverage provision. It states, “The term ‘employee’ means any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other...
View ArticleISSUE: Recurring Question
Some questions come up over and over again. One such question involves foreign workers and/or foreign employers in the United States. Does the Longshore Act cover foreign workers? Does the Longshore...
View ArticleISSUE: Landmark Longshore Act cases – Number Six
Before I get to number six on my list of landmark Longshore Act cases decided at the U.S. Supreme Court, here is the list of numbers one to five as discussed here in the past couple of months....
View ArticleAEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Maritime “status” for “salespeople” and “estimators”
The question arose recently as to whether salespeople and estimators are covered under the Longshore Act. This is a very imprecise and incomplete question, but it can be answered easily. The answer...
View ArticleAEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Review of Status, Part One: Truck Drivers, Nurses,...
Coverage questions about maritime “status” under the Longshore Act arise regularly, and the AEU Longshore Blog has addressed different occupations in various posts. Most recently we have discussed the...
View ArticleAEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Dredging Operations
Questions regularly arise with regard to Longshore Act coverage for dredging operations. These operations present several key coverage issues worth discussing. Overview Dredging is usually done to...
View ArticleAEU Longshore Blog ISSUE: Review of Status, Part Two: Construction Workers,...
This is Part Two of a compilation of occupation-specific status discussions from past AEU Longshore blog postings. Construction Workers A few years back, we covered the Longshore Act status of...
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